Australian-based musician Jeff Lang has earned worldwide acclaim as a virtuosic guitarist, a dynamic songwriter and a startlingly unique live performer. With a back catalogue of 14 studio albums, Jeff has been featured at major festivals, pubs, clubs, arts centres and venues internationally for the past decade. Blending rock, roots, folk, blues, ballads, instrumentals, improvisation and a devastatingly high level of musicality, Jeff Lang is a singularly unique performer in our world.
Jeff has been showered with achievements and awards throughout his career - the most outstanding would be his six ARIA award nominations, that he won in 2002 and 2010.
The John Butler Trio is an eclectic roots/jam band from Australia led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler. Two of the band's albums, Three (2001) and Living 2001-2002 (2003), have gone platinum in Australia and reached the top ten of the Australian album charts in those years. The 2004 album Sunrise Over Sea debuted at number one on the Australian charts on 15 March 2004 reaching gold record status in its first week on sale. Their next and latest release, entitled Grand National, was released on 27 March 2007.
On 26 March 2009 John Butler announced that the current bass and drum musicians of the band, Shannon Birchall and Michael Barker are separating from the band. For purely artistic reasons, John feels that it is necessary to change the line up in an attempt by John to discover new inspirations with new members.
On 30 June 2009 John Butler announced the new bass and drum musicians of the John Butler Trio to be Byron Luiters as the bassist and Nicky Bomba as the drummer and percussionist.
AC/DC are one of the greatest hard rock bands of all times, and one of the most authentic acts of rock'n'roll. They embody the wild, rebellious quintessence of rock music like few other bands before punk-rock. They were the opposite of the intellectual singer-songwriter or the brainy progressive-rock or the decadent glam-rock of the 1970s: they were not the brain and not the heart but the guts of rock and roll. Rolling Stone Magazine gave a "zero" to several of their albums: the greatest compliment ever paid to them.
They are a metalcore band, formed in Byron Bay in the year 2002. Blasting out of Byron, almost as an affront to the serenity of their surroundings, Parkway Drive quickly established themselves as the most formidable heavy hardcore/metalcore band that the world had ever seen. The band begin as a five piece, with the lineup of Winston McCall on vocals, Luke Kilpatrick on guitar, Ben Gordon on drums and Brett Lagg on base. Their name is taken from the address of the band's first rehearsal area that the drummer owned in Parkway Drive at Byron Bay.
Vocalist Michael Crafter (also of Carpathian), guitarists Jona Weinhofen and Kevon Cameron, bassist Sean Kennedy, and drummer JJ formed the ingeniously band named I Killed the Prom Queen in Adelaide, Australia, in 2003. Their Choose to Live or Die EP followed shortly afterward, and 2004 saw the release of their debut long-player, When Goodbye Means Forever, which featured an emotive and melodic amalgam of hardcore and heavy metal made popular by American bands such as Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall. Their follow-up, Music for the Recently Deceased, hit stores at home in July 2006, and after the guys inked a deal with Metal Blade Records, the label issued the record in North America that November. Early the next year, Crafter jumped ship to become the new vocalist for Boston-based Bury Your Dead, as the band also lost Weinhofen to California's Bleeding Through.
Pronunced “in excess”,their style was heavily influenced by the declining punk scene and also found roots in ska and pop.In 1980, the band released their first album, the self-titled "INXS" on Deluxe Records. 1984 saw the band release "The Swing." The Swing continued to push INXS toward the top of rockdom, with such classic singles as "Original Sin," "Burn For You," and "Melting in the Sun." Original Sin, the lead single from the album, established what the band had always tried to do with the help of Nile Rodgers - namely, allow rock music to still be danceable.
After INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence was found dead at a Sydney hotel, suicide was the first conclusion drawn.With the remaining members of the band serving as judges, a godsend was found when the band heard their would-be new singer, JD Fortune, on stage for the audition.Since the talent show and the discovery of JD Fortune, INXS is back in full-swing, releasing "Pretty Vegas", a smash-hit single, and doing tours thru-out the country.
Kylie started her career at age eleven when asked to act in the national Australian T.V. drama series Skyways. This was followed by more Australian television roles in the popular drama The Sullivans, The Zoo Family, Fame & Misfortune and later The Henderson Kids.
After her seventeenth birthday Kylie left school to take up acting as a full time profession.Her first single to be released was a cover of "Locomotion" on July 27th,1987. The single went on to become the biggest selling single in Australia in the eighties, and gave Kylie her first Australian #1. She would quickly have her second #1 with "I Should Be So Lucky" when it was released a few months later. 2000 was always going to be Kylie's year. From the moment "Spinning Around" went to radio in Australia, it became the #1 most added track to Australian radio. The #1 debut position, the first time Kylie had debuted at #1 since "Got To Be Certain", and her first #1 single since "Confide In Me", proved to be yet another milestone. With this single, Kylie became one of three other artists to have a #1 single in the eighties, nineties and noughties. The other two are Madonna and U2 - certainly not bad company to keep.
Gabriella Cilmi is a jazz and pop singer who was born in 1991 and grew up in Melbourne. She was first signed by the Warner Music Group when she was just 12 years old. She is now signed to Island Records and living in the UK.Gabriella's first studio album titled "Lessons to be learned" was released on February 2008.
Her second album "Ten" came out on March 2010, followed by the single "On A Mission". In this album she takes an electro-pop retro edge to her music.
Colin Hay met the guitarist Ron Strykert in 1978 and they started playing together and composing songs which would become the basis for their upcoming band, the MEN AT WORK, with Hay on lead vocals and guitar, Strykert on guitar, Jerry Speiser on drums, John Rees on bass and the multi-instrumentist Greg Ham on keyboards, sax, flutes and harmonica.In 1984 they took a break, and members Speiser and Rees were fired from the band. The remaining members (Hay, Strykert and Ham), joined with studio musicians for the recording of MEN AT WORK’s third album, “Two Hearts”, released in 1985.Ron Strykert left the band during the recording of the album. Colin Hay, Greg Ham and the other musicians did a tour to promote the album and after that the band was over.
Music plays a major role in traditional Aboriginal societies and is intimately linked with a person's ancestry and country (the animals, plants and physical features of the landscape). It is traditionally connected with important events such as the bringing of rain, healing, wounding enemies and the winning of battles.
Aboriginal music is learnt and carried on to later generations by performing it. It is not seen as fixed but rather is something that is varied or built upon in successive performances. There is usually a large number of participants and is performed communally. The diversity of culture across Aboriginal groups is reflected in the diversity of songs, music, instruments and techniques.
Types of Traditional Music
There are three distinct types of Aboriginal music. The first and largest type consists of that used in sacred and secret ceremonies. These are songs which can only be performed in a particular place, and for a particular purpose. The ceremonies usually commemorate some event or events connected with a totemic ancestor. The songs and ceremonies of this type can only be known and witnessed by initiated men. There are also women's secret ceremonies, a large proportion of which are connected with reproduction, and particular songs for children.
The second type of music is the semi-sacred, of which there is a large amount. They were sung by men, while women danced, during the initiation ceremony of young boys. The sacred and semi-sacred songs were performed in full only at the appointed ceremonial ground, and were never sung by men who were not initiates of that totem at that particular place.
The third type is non-sacred or entertainment music. These songs are the only form of Australian Aboriginal music that can be performed by any person - man, woman or child - at any time or any place. The best known form of these public events is the corroboree, in which the men dance for up to three or four hours continuously while the women and children sing. Non-sacred songs were traded freely between tribes and spread easily, often crossing from one language into another.
Young aboriginal children are encouraged to dance and sing about everyday tasks. At puberty a child learns the first songs about the totemic plants and animals of their clan and the history and mythology of the group - these have specific melodic formulas that distinguish them from other group's songs. Young men also learn more lighthearted songs which are the basic entertainment for their group. When a man marries and enters further into group responsibilities, the karma songs are the central part of his education and his source of spiritual strength. His maturity can be measured in the knowledge he has acquired through songs and ceremonies.
One of the most recent and significant examples of the continuing role of song and ceremony in Aboriginal traditional culture is the emergence of the Krill Krill song cycle and ceremony in the east Kimberley.
The Krill Krill (or Gurirr Gurirr) ceremony was revealed to Rover Thomas after the death of a woman to whom he was spiritually related in 1974. The woman was severely injured in a car accident close to Turkey Creek (near Warmun community) and was transferred first to Wyndham then, as she was being flown over the west Kimberley coastline, she died from her injuries. About a month later Rover Thomas was visited by her spirit and she gave him a series of songs and dances about her travels after her death, visiting many sites of sacred or historical importance in the Kimberley.
After several years of his telling these stories, they evolved into a song and dance ceremony called Krill Krill performed by the Warmun community. This ceremony included the carrying of painted boards by dancers. These boards initially were painted by Thomas's uncle Paddy Jaminji, under Rover Thomas' instructions, and only several years later did Rover Thomas take up painting independently himself. These paintings have led to the remarkable growth of the east Kimberley style of painting in which Rover Thomas, Queenie McKenzie, Hector Jandany and Jack Britten are some of the best known artists.
The Krill Krill songs record in brief verses the travels of the woman's spirit in the Kimberley. The number and combination of songs presented in each performance may depend on the nature of the venue and the audience, and on occasions new verses have been added. In each performance, however, the order of the movement across the landscape is maintained. This set of songs is remarkable in a number of ways: as an example of innovation in songs and ceremonies, as the origin of a new and lively school of art, and as an example of continuity in an extremely old oral tradition.
Deliver me!!! From the ………..., from the depths of eternal …... Grasping at the threads of sanity, only to watch them slip through …….. I see the light. I see the end. I see a frail hope, crushed by the ……………. My will is broken. ………, always ……... The sands of time forever ………. Clawing at the emptiness, but a ghost I reach …….. the end. Lost in darkness. Lost in time. Losing a …. on my f*g mind. Ignorance is an easy……. but in the end it takes everything.
2)Why are Parkway Drive called this way?
3)What’s the name of I killed the prom queen vocalist?
-Blues Artists
● Jeff Lang
Australian-based musician Jeff Lang has earned worldwide acclaim as a virtuosic guitarist, a dynamic songwriter and a startlingly unique live performer. With a back catalogue of 14 studio albums, Jeff has been featured at major festivals, pubs, clubs, arts centres and venues internationally for the past decade. Blending rock, roots, folk, blues, ballads, instrumentals, improvisation and a devastatingly high level of musicality, Jeff Lang is a singularly unique performer in our world.
Jeff has been showered with achievements and awards throughout his career - the most outstanding would be his six ARIA award nominations, that he won in 2002 and 2010.
Jeff Lang-London
●John Butler Trio
The John Butler Trio is an eclectic roots/jam band from Australia led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler. Two of the band's albums, Three (2001) and Living 2001-2002 (2003), have gone platinum in Australia and reached the top ten of the Australian album charts in those years. The 2004 album Sunrise Over Sea debuted at number one on the Australian charts on 15 March 2004 reaching gold record status in its first week on sale. Their next and latest release, entitled Grand National, was released on 27 March 2007.
On 26 March 2009 John Butler announced that the current bass and drum musicians of the band, Shannon Birchall and Michael Barker are separating from the band. For purely artistic reasons, John feels that it is necessary to change the line up in an attempt by John to discover new inspirations with new members.
On 30 June 2009 John Butler announced the new bass and drum musicians of the John Butler Trio to be Byron Luiters as the bassist and Nicky Bomba as the drummer and percussionist.
John Butler Trio-Ocean
-Rock Artists
●AC/DC
AC/DC are one of the greatest hard rock bands of all times, and one of the most authentic acts of rock'n'roll. They embody the wild, rebellious quintessence of rock music like few other bands before punk-rock. They were the opposite of the intellectual singer-songwriter or the brainy progressive-rock or the decadent glam-rock of the 1970s: they were not the brain and not the heart but the guts of rock and roll. Rolling Stone Magazine gave a "zero" to several of their albums: the greatest compliment ever paid to them.
AC/DC-Highway to hell
-Metal Artists
●PARKWAY DRIVE
They are a metalcore band, formed in Byron Bay in the year 2002. Blasting out of Byron, almost as an affront to the serenity of their surroundings, Parkway Drive quickly established themselves as the most formidable heavy hardcore/metalcore band that the world had ever seen. The band begin as a five piece, with the lineup of Winston McCall on vocals, Luke Kilpatrick on guitar, Ben Gordon on drums and Brett Lagg on base. Their name is taken from the address of the band's first rehearsal area that the drummer owned in Parkway Drive at Byron Bay.
Parkway Drive-Karma
●I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN
Vocalist Michael Crafter (also of Carpathian), guitarists Jona Weinhofen and Kevon Cameron, bassist Sean Kennedy, and drummer JJ formed the ingeniously band named I Killed the Prom Queen in Adelaide, Australia, in 2003. Their Choose to Live or Die EP followed shortly afterward, and 2004 saw the release of their debut long-player, When Goodbye Means Forever, which featured an emotive and melodic amalgam of hardcore and heavy metal made popular by American bands such as Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall. Their follow-up, Music for the Recently Deceased, hit stores at home in July 2006, and after the guys inked a deal with Metal Blade Records, the label issued the record in North America that November. Early the next year, Crafter jumped ship to become the new vocalist for Boston-based Bury Your Dead, as the band also lost Weinhofen to California's Bleeding Through.
I killed the prom queen-Sharks in your mouth
-Pop Artists
-INXS
Pronunced “in excess”,their style was heavily influenced by the declining punk scene and also found roots in ska and pop.In 1980, the band released their first album, the self-titled "INXS" on Deluxe Records. 1984 saw the band release "The Swing." The Swing continued to push INXS toward the top of rockdom, with such classic singles as "Original Sin," "Burn For You," and "Melting in the Sun." Original Sin, the lead single from the album, established what the band had always tried to do with the help of Nile Rodgers - namely, allow rock music to still be danceable.
After INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence was found dead at a Sydney hotel, suicide was the first conclusion drawn.With the remaining members of the band serving as judges, a godsend was found when the band heard their would-be new singer, JD Fortune, on stage for the audition.Since the talent show and the discovery of JD Fortune, INXS is back in full-swing, releasing "Pretty Vegas", a smash-hit single, and doing tours thru-out the country.
INXS-Original sin
-KYLIE MINOGUE
Kylie started her career at age eleven when asked to act in the national Australian T.V. drama series Skyways. This was followed by more Australian television roles in the popular drama The Sullivans, The Zoo Family, Fame & Misfortune and later The Henderson Kids.
After her seventeenth birthday Kylie left school to take up acting as a full time profession.Her first single to be released was a cover of "Locomotion" on July 27th,1987. The single went on to become the biggest selling single in Australia in the eighties, and gave Kylie her first Australian #1. She would quickly have her second #1 with "I Should Be So Lucky" when it was released a few months later. 2000 was always going to be Kylie's year. From the moment "Spinning Around" went to radio in Australia, it became the #1 most added track to Australian radio. The #1 debut position, the first time Kylie had debuted at #1 since "Got To Be Certain", and her first #1 single since "Confide In Me", proved to be yet another milestone. With this single, Kylie became one of three other artists to have a #1 single in the eighties, nineties and noughties. The other two are Madonna and U2 - certainly not bad company to keep.
Kylie Minogue-Get outta my way
-GABRIELLA CILMI
Gabriella Cilmi is a jazz and pop singer who was born in 1991 and grew up in Melbourne. She was first signed by the Warner Music Group when she was just 12 years old. She is now signed to Island Records and living in the UK.Gabriella's first studio album titled "Lessons to be learned" was released on February 2008.
Her second album "Ten" came out on March 2010, followed by the single "On A Mission". In this album she takes an electro-pop retro edge to her music.
Gabriella Cilmi-Sweet about me
-MEN AT WORK
Colin Hay met the guitarist Ron Strykert in 1978 and they started playing together and composing songs which would become the basis for their upcoming band, the MEN AT WORK, with Hay on lead vocals and guitar, Strykert on guitar, Jerry Speiser on drums, John Rees on bass and the multi-instrumentist Greg Ham on keyboards, sax, flutes and harmonica.In 1984 they took a break, and members Speiser and Rees were fired from the band. The remaining members (Hay, Strykert and Ham), joined with studio musicians for the recording of MEN AT WORK’s third album, “Two Hearts”, released in 1985.Ron Strykert left the band during the recording of the album. Colin Hay, Greg Ham and the other musicians did a tour to promote the album and after that the band was over.
Men at work-Down under
Aboriginal Music
From: http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/amusic.php
Music plays a major role in traditional Aboriginal societies and is intimately linked with a person's ancestry and country (the animals, plants and physical features of the landscape). It is traditionally connected with important events such as the bringing of rain, healing, wounding enemies and the winning of battles.
Aboriginal music is learnt and carried on to later generations by performing it. It is not seen as fixed but rather is something that is varied or built upon in successive performances. There is usually a large number of participants and is performed communally. The diversity of culture across Aboriginal groups is reflected in the diversity of songs, music, instruments and techniques.
Types of Traditional Music
There are three distinct types of Aboriginal music. The first and largest type consists of that used in sacred and secret ceremonies. These are songs which can only be performed in a particular place, and for a particular purpose. The ceremonies usually commemorate some event or events connected with a totemic ancestor. The songs and ceremonies of this type can only be known and witnessed by initiated men. There are also women's secret ceremonies, a large proportion of which are connected with reproduction, and particular songs for children.
The second type of music is the semi-sacred, of which there is a large amount. They were sung by men, while women danced, during the initiation ceremony of young boys. The sacred and semi-sacred songs were performed in full only at the appointed ceremonial ground, and were never sung by men who were not initiates of that totem at that particular place.
The third type is non-sacred or entertainment music. These songs are the only form of Australian Aboriginal music that can be performed by any person - man, woman or child - at any time or any place. The best known form of these public events is the corroboree, in which the men dance for up to three or four hours continuously while the women and children sing. Non-sacred songs were traded freely between tribes and spread easily, often crossing from one language into another.
Young aboriginal children are encouraged to dance and sing about everyday tasks. At puberty a child learns the first songs about the totemic plants and animals of their clan and the history and mythology of the group - these have specific melodic formulas that distinguish them from other group's songs. Young men also learn more lighthearted songs which are the basic entertainment for their group. When a man marries and enters further into group responsibilities, the karma songs are the central part of his education and his source of spiritual strength. His maturity can be measured in the knowledge he has acquired through songs and ceremonies.
One of the most recent and significant examples of the continuing role of song and ceremony in Aboriginal traditional culture is the emergence of the Krill Krill song cycle and ceremony in the east Kimberley.
The Krill Krill (or Gurirr Gurirr) ceremony was revealed to Rover Thomas after the death of a woman to whom he was spiritually related in 1974. The woman was severely injured in a car accident close to Turkey Creek (near Warmun community) and was transferred first to Wyndham then, as she was being flown over the west Kimberley coastline, she died from her injuries. About a month later Rover Thomas was visited by her spirit and she gave him a series of songs and dances about her travels after her death, visiting many sites of sacred or historical importance in the Kimberley.
After several years of his telling these stories, they evolved into a song and dance ceremony called Krill Krill performed by the Warmun community. This ceremony included the carrying of painted boards by dancers. These boards initially were painted by Thomas's uncle Paddy Jaminji, under Rover Thomas' instructions, and only several years later did Rover Thomas take up painting independently himself. These paintings have led to the remarkable growth of the east Kimberley style of painting in which Rover Thomas, Queenie McKenzie, Hector Jandany and Jack Britten are some of the best known artists.
The Krill Krill songs record in brief verses the travels of the woman's spirit in the Kimberley. The number and combination of songs presented in each performance may depend on the nature of the venue and the audience, and on occasions new verses have been added. In each performance, however, the order of the movement across the landscape is maintained. This set of songs is remarkable in a number of ways: as an example of innovation in songs and ceremonies, as the origin of a new and lively school of art, and as an example of continuity in an extremely old oral tradition.
EXERCISES
1)Listen to this song by Parkway Drive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MucML-KI7Bs
This is a part of the lyrics of the song…can you understand the missing words??
Deliver me!!!
From the ………..., from the depths of eternal …...
Grasping at the threads of sanity, only to watch them slip through ……..
I see the light.
I see the end.
I see a frail hope, crushed by the …………….
My will is broken.
………, always ……...
The sands of time forever ……….
Clawing at the emptiness, but a ghost I reach …….. the end.
Lost in darkness.
Lost in time.
Losing a …. on my f*g mind.
Ignorance is an easy……. but in the end it takes everything.
2)Why are Parkway Drive called this way?
3)What’s the name of I killed the prom queen vocalist?
4)Who is the greatest hard rock band of all time?
5)Listen to “Higway to hell” by AC/DC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsDpznl8eIs). Can you
translate the lyrics? If you need an help here you can find the entire lyrics http://www.angolotesti.it/2/testi_canzoni_ac_dc_1789/testo_canzone_highway_to_hell_50633.html
6)Wich songs by INXS can we consider “classics”?
7)What age did Kilye Minogue started her carrier?
8)Where does Gabriella Cilmi live?
9)Listen to this song:
Can you guess who is the artist?
10)Who are they?
11)Who is the first lineup of John Butler Trio?
12)What is the Krill Krill?
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